Tagged: Michael Petrellis

It’s official, Supervisor Wiener will have some competition next year when the District 8 Supervisor seat is up for grabs again. Long-time AIDS activist and transparency advocate, Michael Petrelis, announced on his blog yesterday that on November 21st, he officially filed papers with the San Francisco Department of Elections to run for...

After eight months of legal maneuvering, court dates, postponement, news stories and posts like this one the bell has finally been rung in this particular battle between Supervisor Scott Wiener and controversial blogger/journalist and activist, Michael Petrelis stemming from a pix snapped of the Sup. by Petrelis inside a second...

As is the case the Castro Biscuit often touches on stories or events over the course of a month (or more) and then conclusions, follow ups, or report backs aren’t always so easy to find. Heres this Monday’s offerings. In a April post we reported SFPD was trying to skip around...

A group of gay activists held a protest yesterday against the San Francisco Pride Committee’s rescinding of naming as a Grand Marshal openly gay whistleblower, Bradley Manning, a US Army soldier who was arrested in 2010 in Iraq on suspicion of having passed classified material to the website Wikileaks. Manning was charged with a...

We try to cover a wide variety of topics here at the Biscuit. Some of these stories are ongoing due to the path they’re taking through City channels or courts and others blip across our screen and seem to disappear into the ether never to be heard from again. Thought...

Step up to the ring folks-things are about to get dicey, once again, in local Castro, Queer political circles. As the Biscuit posted on Nov. 30th, Dist. 8 Sup. Scott Wiener asked the SF District Attorney’s office to press charges against Michael Petrellis, longtime LGBTQ activist, blogger, and local politician’s...

We awake this Friday to find yet another odd twist in the world of Castro neighborhood politics. Clinton Fein from The New Civil Rights Movement reports in what appears to be an act of heavy-handed political retribution, longtime activist, muckraker and citizen journalist Michael Petrelis yesterday surrendered to the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department in...

Over a hundred people, both family and friends, gathered around the unlit holiday tree at 18th and Castro Street for the Castro’s Annual Holiday Tree Lighting Ceremony. There were so many people that we spilled into the street as SFPD routed the 24 line around the crowd. Castro ambassador and...